Copperbelt Patriotic Front (PF) has distanced itself from the Kitwe City Council (KCC) operation to demolish houses in Mindolo North.
Copperbelt PF provincial chairperson Stardy Mwale said the party had nothing to do with the demolition exercise.
Mr Mwale said this when he addressed a special PF meeting in Kitwe held in the council chambers and attended by all councillors including Mayor Kelvin Sinyangwe, party district and provincial executive members.
“As a party in the province, we came to learn about the demolition when the bull-dozer was already on the ground and as PF, we have nothing to do with the operation,” he said.
Mr Mwale said the demolition of houses in Mindolo North was initiated based on a court order obtained by Mopani Copper Mines (MCM) and Phoenix Materials who owned the land in question.
He said notwithstanding that, the party still condemned the encroachment of people onto the Mindolo North land because the PF would not want to support illegality.
Mr Mwale said it was in this vein that he has taken the step to suspend Mindolo ward councillor Fonstine Mwape for his alleged involvement in illegal plot allocation in Mindolo North.
“I have summoned him to come and answer charges on his alleged involvement but he has not come. When I phone him, he keeps telling me that he is busy and that he will phone me later. Up to now, he has not done so,” Mr Mwale said.
Mr Mwape has been suspended for his alleged involvement in illegal land allocation in Mindolo North where hundreds of houses built on illegally acquired plots had been demolished.
Its little too late to distance the PF from those actions If Sata wanted he would have stopped the demolition and relocate the people else where.
Why are the police failing to catch this criminal? If he was from opposition police would have have launched a man hunt in no time.
How old is this compound? Where was the council which has been ran by MMD and PF Councillors for many years now.
Stardy Mwale is effectively informing the nation that PF is not running Kitwe Council. Then, the question is who is running the council, whose ticket are the Councillors working on. For sure PF is a lost cause, and Zambians really deserve a better party to be running Kitwe City Council.
HH has just donated 600 bags of meali meal to the people whose homes were demolished by PF led initiative.
This is the leader we want to lead Zambia. Sata has never and will never donate to help the poor. The only thing he is good at is dishing out lies to give people hope without any tangible practical help.
Viva HH and UPND.
Its the people who got allocated the illegal land who were foolish.How can you build without tittle deeds ? Malibu yakuilombela.
You clearly have never built a house offered by Ministry of Lands or a local authority anywhere in Zambia. Once a plot is offered, you are given specific a period of no more than 9 months to make tangible progress on your project, otherwise the plot will be reallocated to other more serious and needy people. This is in black and white within an offer letter. And yet, a title deed comes in a couple of years if your are lucky. So then, where do you anchor your un-researched argument?
Maybe you got your title after many years but i got mine within three weeks in the same Kitwe.
Its the people who got allocated the illegal land who were foo-lish.How can you build without tittle deeds ? Malibu yakuilombela.
#2,3.
I want you to look at the second picture and then start rejoicing.If you do that you are as evil as the devil himself.This is inhuman to destroy house in winter first of all and to wait for them to build houses then destroy them at midnight!
How different are we as a country from the then apartheid South Africa?A christian nation?
People reap what they sow.They sow their seed on an illegal piece of land and the owner has come back to reposes the land.I don`t feel any pity for them.
most pipo in zambia like short cut things in everything even in busineses they involve themselves in drugs to hav more money wen they know tt its an offence. there s no way someone with more than 300,000. can get an illegal plot y cant ths pipo jst buy genuine plots with papers? ifyapa silva plate tafyawama
#4,Tell me the chances of the family in the picture to genuinely acquire a piece of land to build their house today in Zambia?
If land is availed,it is the same rich guys who acquire more land at the expense of the poor masses.We need a land audit in Zambia so that any one who has been given a plot anywhere in Zambia is not eligible for another one.
nzelu zaupuba atase..who do you think demolished them..?
The meeting was unnecessary.
The PF did not have to comment on Local Government action.
The political meeting should not have been convened at the City Council premises, but at the PF facility.
Waste. Waste. Waste of Council resources.
I Bought a plot in 2010 at kitwe west and to date illegal squatters are still there supported by councillors . Kcc gave them free land on their relocation plan but still refused. I really want my plot together with over 200 families who bought these plots legally .
Kindly ask the effective demolition team to visit Ndola where some people have enchoached with impunity on other peoples farms in Misundu area and the authorities are just watching without doing anything. Please do something before more property is dameged.
@ Nasho. Vizungu!! Dameged???
Well done Kitwe city council. you are them men. other councils like Chingola should follow suit. There are too many allocated plts in chingola. Imangine allocating a plot 5 meters from a railway line. You think I’m joking, visit Chikola and kabundi east. We have Plenti of land in zambia , why encroach in private land?
We should not blame PF on this one.
Cum 2016 bells will sound bane,,, a lesson learnt in a hard way…
welcome to the xcul of hard knocks
Very sad…move forward
Not surprising since there has been a negative reaction. But the provincial executive should realize that PF is in government, the council is run by PF and the Minister of Local Government is PF. Even the republican VP is PF and he said yesterday that the government will not condone illegal land allocation. Stardy Mwale therefore, does not know what he is saying.
I am opposed to squartting on other people’s land. There are procedures to get land legally in this country. Having said that however, I condemn this action. There is such a thing as negotiation in the world. Here we had two options;
a) Ask the owners of the land in good faith to give up title as part of their corporate social responsibility to Zambians. They cant keep land idle forever – can they?
b)Government finding an alternative land where to relocate the families and give them a period (say 3 years) in which to properly relocate. Only demolish houses of those that defy the relocation order three years after its issue.
Unfortunately – no negotiations around this two options were explored. This is simply BAD. Ba PF mwatusebanya.
WHILE THE DEMOLITION OF ILLEGAL STRUCTURES MUST CONTINUE, THE COUNCILLORS ALLEGEDLY INVOLVED IN SELLING THOSE PLOTS MUST BE ARRESTED FOR CORRUPTION AND ABUSE OF OFFICE AND MOST LIKELY STEALING THE MONEY FROM SALES. THIS IS NOW POLICE CASE AND THE CHAPS MUST BE ARRESTED FOR CRIMINAL OFFENSES.
AND FOR THOSE WITH A TENDENCY OF ACQUIRING THINGS USING SHORT CUTS, THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE IN CASE YOU WERE ABOUT TO ACQUIRE ONE OR TWO PLOTS FOR YOURSELF USING SHORT CUTS. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH DEMOLISHING ILLEGAL STRUCTURES AND THE COUNCIL(S) SHOULD NOT BE BLAMED FOR TAKING ACTION. ILLEGAL PLOT OWNERS MUST BLAME THEMSELVES. IT HAS BECOME PART OF LIFE IN ZAMBIA TO BUY THINGS USING SHORT CUTS. THIS MUST BE STOPPED IMMEDIATELY AND RAZING DOWN HOUSES ON ILLEGAL LAND IS ONE EFFECTIVE AND QUICK METHOD. I CAN ONLY PITY THE CHILDREN OF THOSE IRRESPONSIBLE PARENTS IN LOVE WITH SHORT CUTS.
MIND YOU COUNCILS, “UWAUMA NAFYALA OMINA LIMO”. PLEASE, DO IT ONCE AND FOR ALL.
Peter what your party has done is inhumane, you can’t even keep one promise remember Sata promising that not even one house will be demolished under PF
What is happening is the exact opposite, now you have created a crisis which you
Have to attend to , smart HH capitalized on you by visiting the place and donating
something than just cheap talk